Collision Course (Album)
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Collision Course ( English for " collision course ") is a mashup album of American rapper Jay-Z and the US nu-metal - band Linkin Park . It was created as part of MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups and was released on November 30, 2004 as CD and DVD. Due to its short duration, the album is mostly considered an EP . This makes it one of the five EPs that reached number one on the US Billboard charts .
Emergence
For the MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups , Jay-Z asked Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park as a potential partner. He then made some remixes and sent them back. Now the project has definitely been taken up.
For the live shows, some parts were changed a bit so that they fit together better. When the decision was made to produce an album, all the songs were also re-recorded. The recordings lasted four days.
But even after that, Mike Shinoda's collaboration with Jay-Z continued. In 2005 Jay-Z acted as executive producer for the debut album The Rising Tied of Shinoda's solo project Fort Minor .
Track list
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| 1 | Dirt Off Your Shoulder / Lying from You | 4:05 | S. Carter , T. Mosley , Linkin Park |
| 2 | Big Pimpin '/ Papercut | 2:36 | S. Carter, T. Mosley, K. Joshua, Linkin Park |
| 3 | Jigga What / Faint | 3:38 | S. Carter, J. Burks, T. Mosley, Linkin Park |
| 4th | Numb / Encore | 3:25 | Linkin Park, S. Carter, K. West |
| 5 | Izzo / In the End | 2:45 | S. Carter, K. West, B. Gordy , A. Mizell , F. Perren, D. Richards, Linkin Park |
| 6th | Points of Authority / 99 Problems / One Step Closer | 4:56 | Linkin Park, S. Carter, R. Rubin , N. Landsberg, F. Pappalardi , J. Ventura, L. Weinstein, B. Squier , T. Marrow, A. Henderson |
There is also a DVD that contains live performances of all the pieces.
Single releases
The only single was released on November 16, 2004 Numb / Encore . This became a worldwide hit and reached the top of the singles charts in Ireland. The top ten were also reached in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, Numb / Encore came 8th in the Austrian annual charts in 2005. The song also won a Grammy for “Best Rap / Sung Collaboration” that same year.
Points of Authority / 99 Problems / One Step Closer was released as a promo single in the USA, but could not reach a chart placement there.
Chart successes
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| 2004 | Collision Course |
DE5 (24 weeks) DE |
AT5 (23 weeks) AT |
CH2 (24 weeks) CH |
UK15 (17 weeks) UK |
US1 (26 weeks) US |
Sales: + 5,000,000
platinum & a. in the USA, Germany and Switzerland |
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| 2004 | Numb / Encore |
DE4 (36 weeks) DE |
AT3 (29 weeks) AT |
CH10 (26 weeks) CH |
UK14 (71 weeks) UK |
US20 (20 weeks) US |
Platinum u. a. in the USA and Germany
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reception
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The criticism was sometimes very different. While David Jeffries from Allmusic praised and awarded the mashup , laut.de wrote : “Creativity is dead, long live the trend of the year.” Only Numb / Encore sounds quite acceptable. Rolling Stone magazine also criticizes the album and finds that Linkin Park cannot keep up with Jay-Z and spoil the fun. CDstarts.de praises that the styles harmonized very well.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jay-Z And Linkin Park Show Danger Mouse How It's Done . mtv.com, accessed March 8, 2014
- ↑ Linkin Park MC Builds A Fort With Jay-Z, Common, John Legend . mtv.com, accessed March 8, 2014
- ↑ irishcharts.ie (search required)
- ^ Austrian annual charts 2005 on Austriancharts.at
- ↑ grammy.com
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↑ a b chart sources:
- Collision Course in the German charts at OfficialCharts.de
- Collision Course in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
- Collision Course in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
- Collision Course in the Official UK Charts (English)
- Collision Course on the US Billboard 200 charts
- ^ Review from allmusic.com
- ^ Criticism from laut.de.
- ^ Review of Rolling Stone
- ^ Criticism from CDstarts.de